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Digital advice, fintech firms merge

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018
A B2B digital advice firm co-founded by a former Vanguard Australia executive has merged with a retiree advice platform founded by a former Challenger distribution head. In a deal finalised this morning, SuperEd merged with Retirement Essentials. SuperEd ...

Investment platform CFO steps down

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018
The chief financial officer of an ASX-listed investment platform has stepped down, with the role to now be outsourced. Share trading platform SelfWealth (SWF) announced it has engaged the services of The CFO Solution, a provider of outsourced administration ...

XPLAN picks up Lumen integration

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018
... management firm Kina expanded its relationship with IRESS by committing to using the firm's Acurity Online fund administration platform. The $4.3 billion fund administrator said it would use Acurity Online to allow its 700,000PNG members access fund ...

Chief economist update: The grass is paler on the China side

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2018
... August meeting was a non-event - keeping the fed funds rate unchanged at 1.75%-20% - but it did give the US central bank a platform to gloat about the US economy. "Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in June indicates that ...

ARCO takes a net short on Australian financials

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2018
... Colman said. He also thinks Link has a strong position in superannuation administration and they have a strong technology platform underlying that and the high-level economics of the UK expansion look okay. "We just felt that the low-value superannuation ...

Last chance to participate in the annual FS Managed Accounts Survey

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2018
... (which owns Financial Standard) said that the managed accounts market is growing at three times the rate of the regular platform market. "Our research has identified more than 70 SMA managed accounts available through 40 brands. These managed accounts ...

SuperConcepts searches for new CTO

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2018
... the foundations of the business. Groeneveld said at the time SuperConcepts consolidated many of its applications to one platform with the help of NASDAQ-listed business application developer Progress. He said the partnership has enabled SuperConcepts ...

Poor tech derails financial services marketing: Study

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2018
Inefficient marketing technology poses more roadblocks for financial services marketers than competitor products or management buy-in, a new study shows. Yell Creative found 32% of the marketers they surveyed in their annual 'Australian Finance ...

KPMG acquires customer experience fintech

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2018
... addressed business issues through customer and staff experience lenses, highlighting work it completed for task outsourcing platform AirTasker. "We provide holistic customer experience problem-solving, with the security of fact-based evidence and the ...

AMP moves to reset business

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2018
... wealth protection. "Today's announcement reflects our commitment to take decisive action to reset AMP and establish a platform from which the business can recover rapidly. We're facing squarely into the issues that have impacted our reputation and the ...